"I think you always feel braver in another language."

-- Anita Brookner

#Thinking Quotes #Language Quotes #Feels Quotes

“All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.”
“Misery starts with a person's reactions to someone or something outside of his or herself. In truth, it is not the event or situation or what others are saying or doing that is the problem; it's our reaction that is triggered by what we believe these words and events mean.”
“The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.”
“We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.”
“Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.”
“Even logical positivists are capable of love.”
“Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.”

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.
“Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.”

Source : "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, 1996.

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